Steam Reserving Space

When I get an update it sits on reserving space for literally 30 or so mins before it even installs. The game is on an ssd. Is anyone else's game like this as sometimes I only have an hour or two to play and I lose most the time waiting for a 1.5gb update.

 

I have not, but I have my game set not updated unless I launch it. Have you not tried to verify the Game files via Steam?

 

This is a mysterious behaviour of the steam client. It mainly results from the inability to specify a local cache folder, instead, steam client decides on it's own. Do you have more than one "depot" created in steam for games to be installed on? When you open the windows task manager and select the tab "performance" during an TSW update, you see a lot of read/write on your slowest HDD - but this might be the disk with the most free space ;-)

This problem is very old, I've done my research on it 4-5 years ago (because with every TSW update, I had to "schedule" when to install it, sometimes it took the whole evening updating) and Valve has no intention to address the issue. Today it behaves different each time and I just pray each time the "remaining time" is a lie and somehow everyhing finishes updating fast, which is happening too sometimes

 

Well after waiting it said I am out of space to download. The game is on a 250gb sd drive and my game is 185gb so I tried removing some of the dlc so it will install and now the whole game has to be downloaded again. So frustrating

 

I do have 2 drives for steam one with tsc and one with train SIM world could this be an issue?

 

Usually Steam will use its home folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\downloading) first. If not enough free space, it will use a library folder's (e.g. D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\downloading) location.

Just make sure there's enough space. (At least twice the size of the download). Never had issues. If a drive is marked red in Explorer, free up space.

For games using delta patches like TSW, space is needed for a) the download, b) the file resulting of the delta patch being applied, which happens in a separate location (meaning you will temporarily have two paks of the same DLC), and will then be verified and copied to the DLC folder. This needs working space.

It's good to clear the Download cache in Steam from time to time, resolved many issues reportedly.

 

No, as Spikee1975 already stated, there's just not enough space/room on the Drive you are installing to, the game type matters not, and you can if you really wanted to, install to multiple drives with Steam, as you have done already, I suggest you try and look into getting a bigger drive, as funding allows, 1Tb or 2Tb drives are slowly getting to be too small with many games and games like TSW with the number of DLCs that anyone can have, on top of that when any updates or patches are pushed out and you run into issues as explained by Spikee1975.